DesignSessions Video Tutorial: Gesture Drawing

[vinejuli311]

Anyone else thinks even for gesture drawing it looks really cool?

[stabbinhobo12]

this is beautiful

[bagelsofDEATH]

why is this harder than it looks? my mind wants to draw in a completely different way. :\

[Sarskater6]

@bagelsofDEATH I think it's harder at the beginning because you don't normally want to let go and give in to intuition. Just kind of make lines even if they don't fully make sense

[exexlegolasexex]

Most gesture tutorial vids only show figures.  Good to see an object example. there are better explanations, but I think the artist here tells you exactly why HE uses this exercise instead of trying to list every possible use that it can have.

[yesenia0123]

This is exactly how my professor wants his students do the gesture drawing.

[pilotkid1000]

not that great

[BigDogGMoney]

I love gesture drawing but this is a bad tutorial - this is overly worked and looks like a dirty mess. Maybe try a HB as opposed to something much softer. Check out Giacometti's drawings and other tutorials on here. I have watched some decent ones.

[cilo56]

This is bull and overkill. This might be how people who learn to draw as a skill do this. But people who are born with the talent don't do this kind of thing.

[stinky472]

@cilo56 Like who? Name someone.

[thanatos454]

@cilo56

This comment fails on so many levels.

[taklg8]

@cilo56 WRONG. My school is kinda rich so they got this really really good art teacher. He says EVERYONE must practice this many times. Sometimes daily. Trust me my art teacher was picked out of 4000 ppl as the best and he taught college for 20 years

[LipSingBlondie]

@cilo56 what your saying is bs, my friend. even the most talented of my friends gesture draw.

[dukeaddict237]

@cilo56 actually most marvel comic creators do gesture drawing.

[AyPeeElTee]

@cilo56 lol ur a fool. you havent taken a serious studio class before have you? and if you have and you feel that way you should get your money. google it noob...

[Tament13]

Great job here mate

[lithographer64]

Great! Demo... other tricks... use left hand for drawing.... attach pencil to long stick...

Thanks for posting...

[minz456]

OMG TAS GOOD XD

[bslaybaugh]

gesture drawing...with a fan!? Come on.

[achcaina00]

Gesture drawing is very important and essintental to an serious artist. But I hate the way this guy explains it. he doesn't ready go over the core fundamentals of gesture and why it is important. With gesture one can achieve more life and sense of movement in there drawing.

BTW, On a side note not all gesture is this messy, it depends on the artist. I prefer the slick and smooth gestures my self.

[chibioken]

@achcaina00 I had never heard of gesture drawing. I'm going to college for an art field and I have 20 sketches due this week of gesture drawings. I agree with you that it's not really that messy ever and he doesn't explain it at all well.

[AIMANALI]

@achcaina00 seems like good advise (seems - cause i am new at this). Please can you tell me what are the core fundamentals ? any link etc.

I found this vid useful but anything will help me at this stage. Thx

[soulholder]

@achcaina00 is right - Gesture drawing can be a hell of a lot neater than this if you exercise your pencil pressure correctly. I therefore wouldn't always describe this as aggressive. I've found that the 'randomness' of your mark making when practicing this helps you to define the marks you actually want in relation to the ones you don't; you apply more pressure once you're sure.

In preproduction, this is often practiced with a blue pencil first an then refined with actual pencil. Try it out.

[theboombody]

Yeah, I always thought it was best to start messy just to have something on the paper, and then clean it up later.

[thisbarb]

Best to use a tablet.

[54spiritedwill54]

Ditto. This is fun.

[lonelyzoe]

i like everything except the music...

[veaudor]

I love this. Why isn't there more?

[Meconstrue]

thats how I sharpen my pencil

[rideandpop]

at first it looked like sh**

[vivamexico47]

That's how all art starts out

[rideandpop]

I AM PROUD TO SAY I WROTE DOWN THE LIST!

[CurlyHayami]

Nice.

I'm a freshmen in the AI of Tampa, you might be some help.

[GerardWayLuverr]

lmfao, is this a joke?

it's KiNDA funny.

but it's pretty good actually. :D

[gargantuanstudios]

Just to say I watched it

[stargate121]

I totally disagree with the "Start in the middle and work outwards" approach. I think you should quickly make marks indicting the top and bottom of the object, then loosely sketch the large masses within, in this case a circle for the fan and a cylinder shape for the base. This way you have a basic frame from which to build on.  Using your method, the drawing could go all over the place, with no sense of proportion.

[PenyaG]

The only way I think the drawing would be all over the place using his method is if you're drawing what you think is right as opposed to what you see. Drawing what you actually see -- I don't see how the proportions would be off.

[stargate121]

With this method you concentrate on the details, rather than the whole. Compositionally, you can run off the paper if you don't have the basic framework of the outline to guide you.

[PenyaG]

I don't think you're doing a gesture correctly if you're focusing on details. :x

[stargate121]

Amen.

[stargate121]

Just to be clear, gesture drawing has to do with capturing the gesture of a human. That is why in gesture drawing your supposed to capture the line of action of the whole figure to start. Were an artist to apply the technique of this video, he would start at the belly button and work draw outwards from there, completely missing the point of gesture drawing.

[CurlyHayami]

All on taste to me.

I use a combination to tell you the truth.

[vivamexico47]

what works for you

[janmontred]

Well done. Defined and described well... I'll send my students to see this video.

I teach art at a university in NC. And yes, all those lines ARE necessary - they help you keep track of where you are in a very, very fast observation.

[ruebird]

are all those lines really necessary?

[lethologic]

hey man, this is great, very clearly communicated. can we see more, please? pleeeease?

[DAsObiQuiet]

I really appreciate this. ARe yo going to be doing more?

[Bluedragon9151]

what number a pencil are you using?

[scrunchymatic]

I doubt it really matters much

[coffeemadness]

Ditto. This is fun.

[cryptkeeper5]

this is quite helpful because ive been messing around with this kind of drawing for a while